Linking semantic and knowledge representations in a multi-domain dialogue system

Journal of Logic and Computation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 405-430

  Dzikovska, Myroslava O ^a   Allen, James F ^b   Swift, Mary D ^b  

^a Human Communication Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

MULTI-DOMAIN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS; TWO-LAYER ARCHITECTURE;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 44649085543     PISSN: 0955792X     EISSN: 1465363X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/logcom/exm067     Document Type: Article

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